An exhibition set up in Valletta invites the visitor to discover the singular itineraries of different people with unparalleled migratory routes.

Katel Delia, also known as Katelia, is French but deeply attached to her Maltese origins. She has been living in Malta for a year now and starting from her own family story, she created a new genealogical tree of diversity with Familja migrAzzjoni.

The beginnings go back to 1920, when unable to obtain a divorce, her great-grandmother fled from Malta to Tunisia along with her six children. Fast forward to 1956, shortly after Tunisian independence, when her grandfather returned to Malta with his family. Soon after, at the age of 21, Katelia’s father himself migrated from Malta to the country of his dreams, France.

This exhibition documents the artist as she meets different people on their unique migratory routes, leading her to enlarge ‘her’ family with new members from all over the world. She photographs them, listens attentively to them and then replicates in her own writing their periods of life, their journeys strewn sometimes with pitfalls, their expectations, difficulties and hopes.

■ Familja migrAzzjoni runs at St James Cavalier in Valletta until April 2 as part of the Spazju Kreattiv programme. The exhibition features excerpts in Maltese, English and French. A lecture with the artist and guest authors is taking place on March 22 while a closing reading is scheduled for March 31. For more information, visit kreattivita.org.